Sisyphean Bills

He did. And Chan stuck a fork in him.

Where's the dog leash? Time to enjoy the fall colors.

It could be worse?

Kaepernick could at least play the game. Peterman is ... what? ... a tall dude? A converted soccer player?

Consider Zip Recruiter?

One problem with this—and there are several—is no NFL team is ever going to give Joe Average Fan millions of anything to sit on any bench. While EJM may be a middling/lame/horrible NFL QB, he still has more talent, an incomparable amount more, than Average Joe.

Good God, man. At least let him come off for goal-line defense snaps!

That 30 minute period after you win the Super Bowl and have champagne spraying in your eyes.

No, I wasn't saying you were critical of BB. I was saying BB, like it or not, deny it or not, is the metric. The Patriots own our division. Until the Bills can compete with BB, they will continue to be nothing more than an afterthought, as they have been for this millennium.

The EJM thing simply doesn't add up, nor does it absolve anyone associated with it. Nix was on his way out the door. This was widely understood despite the political blah-blah from Russ Brandon. Brandon, Nix, and Whaley had their roles in bringing on Doug Marrone. And the four to them had their roles in selecting EJ Manuel. As the 1st QB taken in the draft, it is hardly convincing to try to minimize or pivot that selection. EJM was the franchise QB that the clown show chose. But EJM was done in Buffalo by the end of his rookie season. The splatter from the fan is enough to get some on everyone here. Nobody involved should get a free pass. It isn't about who to cherry-pick for a pardon. At the very least, Whaley got it wrong with his board and continued to compound his mistakes with his delusional take that EJM was the next Ben Roethlisberger.

The point about Belichick is that the goal and thus the focus should be success on the scoreboard. Having large ROI for the owner, the really nice flat-screen in every office, or the best free office lattes are nice, but not the mission. Belichick focuses on winning football games and those other things stem directly out of that, not the other way around. And success is absolutely crucial, and it has to come quickly. We've seen the tiny brightly painted car circle the ring and the clowns pour out often enough to understand distractions. If the brain-trust can't plan and can't deliver wins, it's noise and smoke that amounts to historic ineptitude.

Nix and Whaley were scouts that were handed titles. They didn't build a successful organization because, as Whaley admitted, they got caught up in the minutiae and had no strategy on how to take down Bill Belichick. It was obvious at the time from the pendulum swinging with coaching staffs and systems. The situation in Buffalo is absurdly self-evident. Anyone that wants to be successful in Buffalo must have a plan to take down the Patriot dynasty. Even Rex Ryan, who indisputably had his faults, understood that and said it both here and when he went to the Jets.

Yeah, it's a victory lap strategy.

So Whaley admits he never really had a plan. A General Manager without a plan. The mind absolutely boggles. So much for those that defended this incompetent—to the point of defying the laws of physics—clown show daily.

Guess: Like they found their franchise QB.

Cuts both ways. If there is a young guy who eats, sleeps, and breathes football 365 days a year, is currently doing heavy lifting underneath someone else who gets the face time, will run into a brick wall for a chance to prove himself as a great talent evaluator, and who hits it off with McD, then the Bills are a great opportunity and that guy is a great fit. Of course, if it's just about hiring dudes that McD knows, then we haven't advanced much past the days of Ralph hiring dudes he knew because, well, he knew 'em.

The Bills have lacked strategic vision for a long time as evidenced by their lack of success on the field. I have no idea if McD is the visionary or the strategic planner that this organization so desperately needs, but a shake down is way overdue. As things wound down with Ralph, it became impossible to do a real course correction because nobody they could hire was willing to pour the level of energy into something with ownership uncertainty looming. And, I suspect, they were far more interested in making the books look as bright green as possible for Mrs. Wilson to cash out with the biggest windfall possible. To the HC running the show, this isn't unheard of obviously. Pete Carroll and Bill Belichick run their teams and have had great success in doing so. For Belichick, reinventing the team on-the-fly has been accomplished in all phases, with the exception of QB. He is able to adapt and change to trends and the parts supply. It's a dynamic plan, but one of its innovations is that the coach isn't married to particular parts on his roster or to any particular system. Few coaches have been as adaptable. We will see what McD can do, but at this point he doesn't strike me as a coach who's content to just try and work with the holdovers and hangers-on who haven't demonstrated any sustained success for a generation of fans.

Sure. He has no input. None at all. Convinced?

Thanks for all those playoff trips. Oh, wait.

Scott Adams might call it "normal entrepreneurship", though no one can explain how that applies to a pre-existing high-value business.

What's more scary is to keep doubling down on a crew with a record that says they don't know their own blindspots.

He did have negative yards rushing on the year. I mean, give the guy his props.

You know that you didn't have to read it, right? Maybe a "Where are they now? Kamil Loud" would be more interesting.

The Atlanta defense stopped generating pressure on Brady. That was a nail in their coffin. They didn't make several plays on the ball that were given to them. Make any one of those and they win. Their offense was a no-show for most of the second half. They needed a sustained drive. A FG anywhere in the second half and they win the game. They melt the clock more and they win the game. Special teams? They kept catching the ball on the goal line or 1 and trying to return it. Usually to the 8 yard line. That's like taking an 17 yard penalty for stupidity's sake. Why? And one time the guy jogged straight out of bounds to stop the clock. WTF? Those 17 yards would have meant better field position and Brady would have to work several more plays to inch it down the field. Clock running. Time was on Atlanta's side. Coaching? For the second time in 3 years, the Patriots were given a huge gift by idiotic decision making by the OC. I guess OCs in the NFL are scared shitless of Belichick "taking something away" from them. Julio Jones is the Falcons best player and it's not close. One doesn't just concede and say "Belichick outcoached me, darn" and not get the ball to your best player. It's the Super Bowl. You let your playmakers make the plays! If that's Julio Jones or Marshawn Lynch, you go with the bell cow. Don't overthink it. If one does and thinks getting the ball to the 5th or 6th option is going to "fool" somebody, he's only fooling himself. Playing into matchups that favor Billy B is exactly what he wants his opponent to do. And they do it over and over and over ...